Burials in Ancient Palestine: From the Stone Age to Abraham

Callaway, Joseph A.

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“…Mastin () pointed out patterns and features that appeared to preclude this interpretation, without offering any real alternative explanation for the ossuary form. Anati (, 289–90) and Callaway (, 80) followed up on the domicile idea, proposing that congregations of house‐shaped ossuaries represented ‘villages of the dead’. Bar‐Yosef and Ayalon () suggested that box and jar ossuaries were representations of grain silos, an idea taken up by Shalem (, 224, 232–3).…”

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Expediting Reincarnation in the Fifth Millennium BCE: Interpreting the Chalcolithic Ossuaries of the Southern Levant

Ilan

Rowan

2019

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary We examine and reinterpret the phenomenon of containers used for the secondary burial of human remains – ossuaries – in the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant, c.4500–3700 BCE. Ossuary form and decoration, both plastic and painted, is evocative and symbol‐laden. Since their first discovery in the 1930s, several hypotheses have sought to explain ossuary iconography, but none provides an integrated, holistic interpretation. Chalcolithic iconography, mortuary contexts, and archetypal mythologies suggest that ossuaries, mainly of clay, but also of stone, served as vehicles of reincarnation.

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Expediting Reincarnation in the Fifth Millennium BCE: Interpreting the Chalcolithic Ossuaries of the Southern Levant

Ilan

Rowan

2019

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…the expression rvnapn rva below), a practice which was widespread in Palestine from the Chalcolithic Age well into the Byzantine Period. 11 Although earth burials are found (as, for example, at Qumran) the practice of burial in cave tombs became very common throughout Palestine during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. 12 By the middle of the first century c.E.…”

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“…Both of these obstacles are due to the initiative of the chief priests and the Pharisees (who also perpetrate the fraud of 28. [11][12][13][14][15] Lukas, und Johannes und die Apostelgeschichte) (Miinchen: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1956), 544). Thus visiting the tomb 'until the third day' is to be preferred to the reading 'for thirty days'.…”

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The Women at the Tomb: Matthew 28:1 Re-examined

Longstaff¹

1981

New Testam. Stud.

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It seems singularly unfortunate that in the twentieth century Matthew's Gospel has so often been studied with more attention being given to the Marcan source than to the Matthean narrative.1 Nowhere is this tendency more evident than in the account of the visit of the women to the tomb of Jesus (Matt. 28. 1; Mark 16. 1–2; cf. Luke 24. 1). A survey of the commentaries on Matthew quickly reveals how pervasive this interest in the Marcan narrative is.2 But while it may well be a reasonable exegetical procedure to compare one Gospel with another, the way in which the perspective described above can also hinder an understanding of Matthew's Gospel is strikingly apparent in M. D. Goulder's treatment of this passage in a recent article in New Testament Studies. Goulder writes:The motive for the women's visit to the tomb is coherent in Mark. Joseph has rolled Jesus' body in linen, but it is not said that he anointed it: the women come to supply this need – they see where he is laid (xv. 47), and come to anoint him (xvi. 1). Matthew's story is incoherent: he does not mention the ointments throughout, and the women, having sat opposite the tomb (xxvii. 61), come, weakly, to see the tomb (xxviii. 1). On Marcan priority this is easily understood: Matthew has introduced a guard on the tomb, so an anointing venture must seem impossible. But, on Matthaean priority, what would they want to come and see the tomb for at first light?3

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Basalt vessels in Chalcolithic burial caves: Variations in prestige burial offerings during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant and their social significance

Chasan

Rosenberg

2018

Quaternary International

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Burials in Ancient Palestine: From the Stone Age to Abraham

Cited by 6 publications

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Expediting Reincarnation in the Fifth Millennium BCE: Interpreting the Chalcolithic Ossuaries of the Southern Levant

Expediting Reincarnation in the Fifth Millennium BCE: Interpreting the Chalcolithic Ossuaries of the Southern Levant

The Women at the Tomb: Matthew 28:1 Re-examined

Basalt vessels in Chalcolithic burial caves: Variations in prestige burial offerings during the Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant and their social significance

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